Thursday, February 19, 2009

I've talked about Spore on and off before on this blog. Here's what I've been doing in Spore. I think it's fair to say I own half of my arm of the galaxy now.

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What do these ultra-powerful aliens look like? Look to the alien pictured down the page a bit and to the right. I modeled them after the Vortigaunts from the Half-Life series. I call them Vorts. Although in the Half-Life series the Vortigaunts are good guys. In Spore, I play the Vorts as a ruthless race bent upon the destruction of every other empire in their arm. So it is fitting that they are allied with the game's main villains: the Grox.

Within the Vort's territory, they are the only space-fairing species. They have exterminated 292 other space empires in their conquest for total galactic arm domination. The game doesn't tell me exactly how many colonies they actually have; I really wish it did.Many of those flags you see are multiple systems so close together that from this distance you only see one flag. A good example are the flags in the upper left corner. One of those is actually 5 systems that circle a wormhole. There are also quite a few systems that have more than one planet colonized within.

Every colonized planet is T3, has at least 3 filled out cities (all with max happiness), and a full compliment of city wall turrets. Each planet also has an uber turret, spice storage, bio protector, bio stabilizer, happiness booster, and loyalty booster. Yeah, a lot of time was spent doing this.

@ Anonymous: Thanks. It is quite a large empire. Since I posted this, I've filled out a little more in a few of the gaps. However, I've been concentrating on a few of my other empires. They're not anywhere near as big.

i haven't nearly gotten that big of an empire but i have quite a few more master plans than most of the other spore players.... i've been playing for about a couple weeks now and i have already come up with the brilliant idea of creating sentient species on planets that i want to colonize then methodically taking out all then colonies on said planets and getting 7 extra colonies on said planets >:)

@ Pat: That's impressive. I've pretty much stopped playing since I installed the expansion (Galactic Adventures). It did something to my game... Now it takes literally 5 minutes to start the game, and another 5 to load a save.

I should uninstall it, then reinstall without the expansion. I copied out my saved games before I installed the expansion, so I shouldn't lose much.

@ Anonymous (#15): Not so. With the uber turret, bio protector, and bio stabilizer the colonies require no maintenance. I never have bio-disasters and pirate raids/enemy empire attacks are over 2 seconds after they're reported.

you really need to get a life is that all u do play a kids game when most people are doing normal things like getting laid, getting drunk an being as high as a kite. obviously u havent done any of them. lmao.

Bloody Hell man! I take my Hat OFF to you mate!How long did this take you?!oh btw-the Galactic Adventures expansion uses about half the memory of the original Spore, so if you dont have enough memory on your computer then it will take a while to load, you'l have to get a RAM stick or upgrade your HD to get it to load really quickly.Great empire though mate, post another pic when you finish the arm XD

Holy shit, I'll never get an empire that big! I came close to a quarter of my arm, and a little around Earth, but I planet bustered like 60 planets and couldn'y get to my colonies fast enough to protect them. By the end I had shrunk tenfold. :(

Hey, This is absolutely amazing...If you woudln't mind sending me the gamesave, I could continue on, as long as that's alright.I've got a lot of time on my hands, and could easily take another finger.Also, how the fuck do you ally with the grox....Kindest Regards, Ollie.

And, by the way...@that chav who seems to think that taking drugs is normal, I've got this to say:Rather be at home, within the safety of my walls, playing a computer game and having a select group of friends who get me, despite the face that I, and Marf possibly, are seen by the wider community as 'nerds.' Also, if you think he's such a sad-arse, why the hell are you touring his blog.All I've got to say is; Fuck off.

Im Spore-nerd again... im just checking if u guys see my comment? Plz tell me if u see this. Oh and im trying to colonize the entire universe with my Zealot empire.But then again i wont be able to make any new games if i do that...also ill have to delete all my other saved games which is fine by me because i only have 1 more desent saved game. The others are completely dumb.

Opps, i didnt do the word thing on my other blog... lol i didnt see it there...anyway u can call me Spore-nerd or whatever works for you...im still reserching on the Grox but i dont know if people are just making stuff up or not... If you ask me, I think Maxis is a genius. If i spelt that wrong its because im not as smart as maxis ^^

Purple spice is the most valuable spice of them all. I dont know about everyone else, but from what Ive heard, the most is about $57,003 or somewhere around that amount for just 1 crate of purple spice. BUT on mine, i sell purple spice for 72,002 or 76,002. If there's a glitch in my game or something, please tell me. By the way, i was just wondering, what do the Happiness boosters and Loyalty booster actualy do? I used them twice, but they dont seem to do anything. Someone please tell me what they do.

By the way... I know why the Grox are always against the Galactic Code and are never 'happy'.The Grox are a species that can not be Enlightened, A.K.A meeting Steve. Which is why they are living in the center of the galaxy. I read about the 'not Enlightened' thing, and fighured the rest on my own. NOT MAKING THIS UP LIKE SOME PEOPLE!!! ^^

if this helps, when you said it dosnt tell you how many colonies you have, if you check your history it sais 'Colony Placed' but im not sure if that will really help... this will be my last comment sense ive done 8 comments already... srry bout that ^^

Believe it or not, I think I might have more systems than you on my best-going empire 0_0 if i could change their name I SOOOOOOO would... i never relized they would come all this way so fast. Im 3 years into Spore, and im no where near discovering all of Spore's secrets...(my best empire is called the Zzeebs, and if i would have found this, i would have called them the Zzorts). Not to be a freakish coppier, but I cant resist using that name (if i could, anyway) I think the only reason my empirr is so advancd over the others, is because around my home planet, and just about anywhere my empire goes,(wierdly), there are purple spice planets, allowing me to make 99,999 sporebucks (or spucks) at any given time. At first i was going to ally the grox, but I guess I messed up because I went STRAIGHT to the galactic core WITHGOUGHT destorying any or their ships, but I 'avoided contact' as they put it... that was mystake #1. #2 was that I acidently droped a bomb on one of thier colonies. I know what your thinking- THIS GUY IS SUCH A NOOB!! HOW DO YOU ACIDENTLY DROP A BOMB!?!? Well, ocasionaly my mouse messes up and a bomb (or something else) just keeps dropping untill I press the button again. #3 was that I left my auto blaster on after i went back home for a little visit (ending up starting a war with the Minor Empire), and i guess I destroyed a Grox ship, and that was all i needed for them to declare war on me.It had been a long day of playing, and i had no choice but to save. I wasnt actualy wanting to just ally with the Grox, (Sense the Zzeebs Empire is a Zealot Empire, and allying with the Grox would make no sense whatsoever) I was experimenting to see if i could possibly get both badges: Dancing With The Devil, and Badge Outta Heck, by allying them and THEN destroying them... Yes i am getting off topic so ill just stop here. Hopfully THIS will be my last post, but no promisses sense i have this page on my favorites list. I just love spore so much... in a mettiforic way. I have actualy learned from this game, alot more than most educational games I have ever played in my life time. THANKS AGAIN MAXIS ^^

My empire is just in one big heap, so its kinda hard to tell if i have more (I DONT KNOW, NOR THINK I HAVE MORE SYSTEMS THAN YOU) If you have a problem with your history, then tell me, because on mine (Zzeebs anyway) the history is all 'mixed and glitched' yes thats a catchy ryhme. Anyway, the cell stage (in history) is completly untouched, while my creature and tribal stage are morfed together on the line below, but NOTHING on the pages. THEN they show up on the civilization stage. so in civ. stage, i have half of creature, tribal, and civ. stage. space stage? I CANT EVEN READ ONE THING ITS SO PACKED WITH JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!